Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean